Daniel silvas biography

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Life instruction career

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Daniel Silva (novelist)

American writer (born 1960)

Daniel Silva (born 1960) is an American journalist and author of thriller and spy novels.

Early life

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Silva was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan.^[1] When he was seven years old, his family moved to Merced, California. He was raised as a Catholic.^[2]

He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University, Fresno. He began a graduate program in international relations at San Francisco State University but left when offered employment as a journalist at United Press International (UPI).^[3]

Career

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Journalist

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Silva began his writing career as a journalist with a temporary position at UPI in 1984.^[2] His assignment was to cover the Democratic National Convention. UPI made Silva's position permanent and, a year later transferred him to the Washington, D.C. headquarters. After two more years, he was appointed as UPI's Middle East correspondent and moved to Cairo.

Silva returned to Washington, D.C., for a position with Cable News Network's Washington bureau. He worked as a producer and executive producer for several of CNN's television programs, including Crossfire and Capital Gang.

Novelist

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In 1994 he began work on his first nove

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Daniel Silva

The Kill Artist (Gabriel Allon, #1)

4.01 avg rating — 90,398 ratings — published 2000 — 76 editions

The English Assassin (Gabriel Allon, #2)

4.17 avg rating — 42,389 ratings — published 2002 — 68 editions

The Black Widow (Gabriel Allon, #16)

4.33 avg rating — 36,070 ratings — published 2016 — 89 editions

The Rembrandt Affair (Gabriel Allon, #10)

4.32 avg rating — 35,958 ratings — published 2010 — 69 editions

The Defector (Gabriel Allon, #9)

4.33 avg rating — 35,264 ratings — published 2009 — 82 editions

The English Girl (Gabriel Allon, #13)

4.17 avg rating — 35,523 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions

The Confessor (Gabriel Allon, #3)

4.21 avg rating — 34,970 ratings — published 2003 — 80 editions

House of Spies (Gabriel Allon, #17)

4.31 avg rating — 33,204 ratings — published 2017 — 73 editions

The New Girl (Gabriel Allon, #19)

4.28 avg rating — 32,345 ratings — published 2019 — 64 editions

Portrait of a Spy (Gabriel Allon, #11)

4.26 avg rating — 31,449 ratings — published 2011 — 32 editions